This is it. The last day of February. The end of LOAD for 211. It makes me sad. So sad....I plan to make another layout tomorrow. I don't really want it to end....although I do want February to end and March and April and May. June and July can linger on and on and on.....
This is the left half of the page completed on Day 26. Not sure if I really like the paper lion...I was hoping I'd love it....maybe in the morning.
I love LOAD and I'm not "lion"!!!
Thanks everyone for taking the journey with me....I have enjoyed it!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Day 27 - LOAD 211
Here is one page that I will include in yet another album I am starting! The Joy of Love is a class that has been going on this month but with LOAD going on too, I just couldn't put the energy into both. It is my intention to go back and read the prompts and find old photos that match .... discovering the things / people / places I love. I plan to then take new photos to match the prompts that I do not have old photos for. Should be fun!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Day 25 - LOAD 211
Here is the right half of the complete layout! It goes with yesterday's ....like I need to tell you that! Nothing special...just done!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Day 24 - LOAD 211
Here are the boys playing the PS2 on the new big screen TV. I hope to complete the right half tomorrow night....not sure I will have enough of that pattern paper to make it work. Off to bed, I need some sleep cuz' I can not get out of bed in the mornings anymore!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Day 23 - LOAD 211
It seems that each LOAD I have to punt and go to a digital layout because I can't find the photos I want to use. I was browsing through the girls' facebook albums and came across this photo....super cute I thought! So tonight I decided to place in on this digital template and call it good. The title and story just fell into place in my head but I'd be fibbing if I told you that it took less time than a cardstock layout because it didn't! I had lots of trouble getting the story to look "perfect"!
Perfectionism won this time! Double darn!
Perfectionism won this time! Double darn!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Day 22 - LOAD 211
I had a near panic attack this evening. I was starting to feel stuck....I thumbed through a few envelopes of photos, debated about working on a page in the December Daily and thought about adding a page to make a double page layout to one I'd already completed this week but the inspiration just wasn't there. So as I felt the panic rise in my throat, I made a conscious decision not to let that feeling overcome me so I quickly decided to create something using these volleyball photos which have been in the depths of Courtney's room for two years....I had never seen them before but knew that I had paid for them!
As I said in the flickr gallery....I am disappointed in the scan because the flower here is Doodlebug bubblegum bright pink!
As I said in the flickr gallery....I am disappointed in the scan because the flower here is Doodlebug bubblegum bright pink!
Monday, February 21, 2011
Day 21 - LOAD 211
I think I may have already said this somewhere so forgive me for being a broken record....but seriously, why does my dear hubby insist on updating this house this month?!?!? Does he not know that LOAD is going on? Does he not know that I work all day? Taxi children and serve as their ATM well into the evening, cook supper, fold laundry, watch WWE and create a layout too? When would I possibly have time to vacuum behind all the furniture and vac the blinds too, take apart a monster of a computer desk and above all....I MUST scan and upload a layout (if I get one created) tonight. Did I mention we took apart a computer desk and moved it out of the house....which left me with a computer & scanner/printer in a heap on a different desk in a different room?
This will be worth it, I know it will...it has to be!!
So here is what I was able to throw together in a flash tonight. Thank you to Lain for the prompt today, without it I'd be in a puddle on the floor crying because I would have no idea what to do surrounded by a disassembled house and my scrapbook stuff even more scattered and unorganized than it was before.
Callgon anyone? Then I'd have to clean the tub again....I'll settle for a glass of wine....again!
This will be worth it, I know it will...it has to be!!
So here is what I was able to throw together in a flash tonight. Thank you to Lain for the prompt today, without it I'd be in a puddle on the floor crying because I would have no idea what to do surrounded by a disassembled house and my scrapbook stuff even more scattered and unorganized than it was before.
Callgon anyone? Then I'd have to clean the tub again....I'll settle for a glass of wine....again!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Day 20 - LOAD 211
Not at all sure how I will make the second page work with this one and maybe I won't. Need to look at the photos again and decide....too tired right now.
Went shopping for home decor, baskets, groceries, paint and lights. Updating the house....so time consuming and such a mess! T. said he just wants the house to be back to "normal".
Went shopping for home decor, baskets, groceries, paint and lights. Updating the house....so time consuming and such a mess! T. said he just wants the house to be back to "normal".
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Day 18 - LOAD 211
Oh my goodness! I just visited my blog and there is no post for yesterday the 18th! The clock had struck midnight by the time I had completed this layout, cropped it and uploaded it! And I might add the the information super highway was having a major traffic jam! Needless to say, I forgot to add yesterday's layout to the blog....so I present to you....the left half...the better half? You decide!
Day 19 - LOAD 211
The better half?....I'm not so sure. But it's done and as I have thought about scrapping these photos (evidently twice cuz' I have two sets now), I wanted to keep it super simple and focus on the photos.
My scrapping friends are at a crop today...due to so many things in our busy lives I could not join them. That makes me so sad. So I went shopping and visited for a bit with them. Scrap on my freinds and enjoy your weekend!
My scrapping friends are at a crop today...due to so many things in our busy lives I could not join them. That makes me so sad. So I went shopping and visited for a bit with them. Scrap on my freinds and enjoy your weekend!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Day 17 - LOAD 211
Today's prompt was to use this quote on your page or use it as inspiration for a page. I thought that it fit quite well with the sillyness of Easter last year so I just expanded yesterday's layout into a two pager.
"It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones." Jean Webster
I'm not usually a quote person so I really liked Lain's idea of using it as a source of inspiration rather than physically placing it on the layout:)
"It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones." Jean Webster
I'm not usually a quote person so I really liked Lain's idea of using it as a source of inspiration rather than physically placing it on the layout:)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Day 16 - LOAD 211
A scraplift was the prompt today. We were to copy a layout by Melanie Louette. So simple and yet it ended up to be a struggle due my perfectionistic needs. I am actually taking a class called Embrace Imperfection that is teaching me to listen to the voice in my head and RUN away from it and follow my heart. (Trouble is I think my heart likes things in a neat, tidy box as well.)
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Day 15 - LOAD 211
Today's prompt was to use ribbon in a unique way...
I hadn't been back to the December Daily album for awhile so I thought I could make a quick page using ribbon. Simple. Done.
I hadn't been back to the December Daily album for awhile so I thought I could make a quick page using ribbon. Simple. Done.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Day 14 - LOAD 211
I am hopeful that J. will be able to build the cabinet pictured in this layout. I need three of these double units!
What paint color would you choose?
What paint color would you choose?
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Day 13 - LOAD 211
This is the second half of yesterday's page. I could not muster any new creativity today...my DH has decided that we are putting the house on the market. So we spent the day cleaning, organizing, painting, stripping wallpaper, doing laundry, shopping for light fixtures, appliances, sinks, blinds, paint, shower doors, shower surrounds and carpet and packing up a bunch of clutter. Tomorrow we are moving out a bunch of furniture to storage. I think we should be ready to list by June....he's thinking the 1st of March.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Day 12 - LOAD 211
I like the circle embellishments in real life so much better. The lose their dimension online. Page 2 tomorrow? Depends on the prompt...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Day 11 - LOAD 211
She turned 15 yesterday....it is so hard for me to believe! As a teenager we ride the roller coaster of emotion, that is why I treasure this photo! A happy moment!
Went shopping at Archivers while in Omaha this past week and found some new paper by Doodlebug and had to use it on this layout! I rarely scrap with the color yellow but this color matched the feeling of the photo as well as her shirt...bonus!
Went shopping at Archivers while in Omaha this past week and found some new paper by Doodlebug and had to use it on this layout! I rarely scrap with the color yellow but this color matched the feeling of the photo as well as her shirt...bonus!
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Day 10 - LOAD 211
As I said in the flickr description....oh, the extremes that one will go to. I hauled a laptop and camera to Omaha so that I could complete a layout while I was away from home. Yes, Lain, you are right....you CAN create a layout a day with, not a little planning but A LOT of planning and preparing ahead! I was happy with this one and can add to his school album. Yea!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Day 9 - LOAD 211
Super fast page! Literally 20 minutes....leaving for Omaha now! Not the photo I had planned to use but the one I wanted wasn't printed. So 10 of the 20 minutes was spent looking for this photo to go with the papers and ribbon I already had picked!!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Day 8 - LOAD 211
No time again tonight! I thought all day about how I would use buttons on a layout and kept going back to the idea of making a snowman from a couple. I saw a sweater a Christopher and Banks that inspired this idea and have not created it yet. However, I really did not have a snowman layout to create so I went with snowflakes instead. This layout was inspired by katieplus4 in the LOAD 211 group....love her layouts!
Monday, February 7, 2011
Day 7 - LOAD 211
Today's prompt was to find a photo with colors that inspire you...I do love John Deere Green and these two little boys! So the layout grew from that point on! Simple!
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Day 6 - LOAD 211
I do not know how today got completely away from me but it did and this simple layout was all I could complete. It goes with yesterday's layout so I am happy with that. Tha is one thing I really like about LOAD....it forces you to truly finish the layout....right down to the last dot on the "i" and cross of the "t"! Looking for to tomorrow!
Day 5 - LOAD 211
Squeeezed this one in at the end of a busy day! Thankfully I had a 'game plan" before we left the house this morning and I had a strategy for scoring before midnight! I made it with only 4 minutes to go in the "game" (day)! Woohoo!
Friday, February 4, 2011
Day 4 - LOAD 211
Sometimes things don't come together as quickly as one would hope! But done is DONE! Not sure how I will squeeze in time for a layout tomorrow but I'm going to try! See you then!
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Day 3 - LOAD 211
I had this idea to make Valentine's for the kids this year but forgot about it! Funny how that happens! Anyway, when I read Lain's prompt this morning...I remembered my valentine idea. School was the topic I associated with glue so here it is! Very early "Pebbles" days but I like it!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Day 2 - Inspiration at eBay
When I went to eBay and typed my name in the search bar I found oodles of formal dresses. (Whenever I do something like this the computer always states, "did you mean Nike"? This is the one I chose for my inspiration for the day! Gorgeous, isn't it?I had fun typing in others names:
Melissa was about shoes.
Tanner was about books.
Tara was about technology.
Courtney was about dolls.
Jon was about boats.
Amanda was about Kidrobots.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Day 1-LOAD 211
Here we go...creating a layout a day through the month of February.
My inspiration was the photo of T. = JOY!
My layout inspiration was from www.nicholmagouirk.typepad.com
My inspiration was the photo of T. = JOY!
My layout inspiration was from www.nicholmagouirk.typepad.com
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